Hell Devil in Chainsaw Man is a devil who embodies the concept of Hell and serves as a supporting antagonist of the International Assassins arc and a minor antagonist of the Control Devil arc. The Hell Devil sends every living person inside a department store to Hell for Santa Claus in Chapter 63, and the Hell Devil faces the Chainsaw Devil in Chapter 83 and Chapter 84. According to Shueisha, Tatsuki Fujimoto wrote and illustrated Chainsaw Man.
The table below records 16 core attributes of the Hell Devil, with each attribute in the first column and the value of the attribute in the second column.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Hell Devil (地獄の悪魔, Jigoku no Akuma) |
| Also Known As | The Devil of Hell; the six-fingered hand of Hell |
| Species | Devil |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Concept Embodied | Hell; the fear of Hell, known as stygiophobia, the fear of the underworld and eternal damnation |
| Contractors | Santa Claus and the Anti-Makima Squad of Public Safety |
| First Appearance | Chapter 63, “Trip to Hell”, manifesting as a six-fingered hand |
| Full Form Debut | Chapter 83, “Death, Resurrection, Chainsaw”, as a burning centaur |
| Defeat | Chapter 84, “Hero of Hell”, torn to shreds by the Chainsaw Devil, then revived by a devil hunter’s blood |
| Part 2 Appearance | None confirmed; the Hell Devil has no documented appearance in Part 2 |
| Abilities | Hell Connection, contract formation, transportation between Earth and Hell, standard devil abilities |
| Voice Actor (JP) | None confirmed; the Hell Devil has not appeared in the anime adaptation |
| Voice Actor (EN) | None confirmed; the Hell Devil has not appeared in the anime adaptation |
| Popularity Poll | 72nd place in the Second Popularity Poll with 162 votes; 109th place in the Third Popularity Poll with 85 votes; no First Popularity Poll ranking is documented |
| Status | Unknown; last seen sending the Chainsaw Devil to Hell in Chapter 84 |
Spoiler warning: This guide covers the complete story of the Hell Devil, including the sacrifice of three children and a perfect doll in Chapter 63, the attack of the Darkness Devil in Hell, and the destruction of the Hell Devil by the Chainsaw Devil in Chapter 84.
Who Is the Hell Devil?
The Hell Devil is a devil who embodies the concept of Hell and draws power from the human fear of Hell, known as stygiophobia. The Hell Devil serves as a supporting antagonist of the International Assassins arc, and the Hell Devil serves as a minor antagonist of the Control Devil arc. The International Assassins arc runs from Chapter 53 to Chapter 70, and the arc appears in the guide to Chainsaw Man arcs in order.
The Hell Devil matters because the Hell Devil controls the passage between Earth and Hell. The Hell Devil transports victims into Hell on payment of a contract, and the Hell Devil returns victims to Earth on payment of a second contract. The Hell Devil therefore decides who enters Hell and who escapes Hell in the two arcs where the Hell Devil appears.
The Hell Devil belongs to the oldest layer of the devil world of Chainsaw Man. Devils originate in Hell, and devils return to Hell after death on Earth, according to the guide to Hell in Chainsaw Man. The Hell Devil embodies that place of origin itself, and the Hell Devil stands apart from devils who embody single objects, animals, or weapons.
What Does the Hell Devil Look Like?
The Hell Devil in true form looks like a centaur with a featureless head except for a giant mouth open in a grimace, covered with taut flesh that burns constantly. The burning flesh covers the whole body of the Hell Devil, and the burning flesh marks the Hell Devil as a creature of Hell itself. The centaur form appears in full only during the Control Devil arc.
The Hell Devil usually appears as a giant hand with six fingers instead of the full centaur form. The six-fingered hand descends from the sky to seize the targets of a contract, and the six-fingered hand emerges from a door in the sky that connects to one of the many doors in Hell. The hand form is the form most characters ever see of the Hell Devil.
The hand form appears in two distinct moments in the International Assassins arc. A single finger appears first to claim the three sacrificed children, and the fate of the three children is not shown. A giant hand then descends from the sky to warp every devil hunter inside the department store to Hell in an instant.
What Is the Hell Devil’s Personality?
The Hell Devil’s personality is currently unknown, because the Hell Devil never speaks a line of dialogue in the manga. The Hell Devil expresses no opinions, no motives, and no emotions in any appearance. The Hell Devil acts only through contracts, and the Hell Devil performs exactly the service that the payment purchases.
The conduct of the Hell Devil in both arcs follows the same transactional pattern. The Hell Devil accepts the payment offered by Santa Claus and transports the targets of Santa Claus to Hell. The Hell Devil accepts the lives of the Anti-Makima Squad and manifests physically to attack Makima. The Hell Devil completes the task even after destruction, because a devil hunter revives the Hell Devil with blood.
The silence of the Hell Devil separates the Hell Devil from talkative devils such as the Darkness Devil and the Future Devil. The Hell Devil shows no curiosity about the targets of a contract and no loyalty to any contractor. The Hell Devil functions as a force of the underworld rather than as a character with a will of its own.
What Are the Hell Devil’s Powers and Abilities?
The Hell Devil possesses 4 main powers and abilities: Hell Connection, contract formation, transportation between Earth and Hell, and standard devil abilities, including restoration of health through the consumption of blood. The power of the Hell Devil comes from stygiophobia, the fear of Hell. The fear of Hell runs deep in human religion, because many faiths teach that guilty or sinful people face eternal damnation after death.
Hell Connection: The Hell Devil manifests as a giant hand with six fingers, and the hand emerges from a door in the sky that connects to one of the many doors in Hell. The Hell Connection allows the Hell Devil to send specific individuals to Hell without resistance from the targets. The Hell Connection also allows the Hell Devil to carry objects out of Hell, such as the piece of the Darkness Devil delivered to Santa Claus.
Contract formation: The Hell Devil makes contracts with humans for a price, following the standard rules of devil contracts in the guide to how contracts work in Chainsaw Man. The price of a contract with the Hell Devil is measured in human lives, and greater sacrifices purchase greater uses of the power of the Hell Devil. A full human life purchases even a partial use of the power of the Hell Devil.
Transportation between Earth and Hell: The Hell Devil moves living beings in both directions between Earth and Hell. The Hell Devil sends every living being within a defined area to Hell under the contract of Santa Claus. The Hell Devil returns every devil hunter to Earth under the contract forced through Tolka by Makima.
Standard devil abilities: The Hell Devil restores health by consuming blood, like all devils. The restoration through blood matters in the Control Devil arc, because a devil hunter revives the Hell Devil with blood after the Chainsaw Devil tears the Hell Devil to shreds. The revival lets the Hell Devil complete the task of sending the Chainsaw Devil to Hell.
How Did Santa Claus Use the Hell Devil to Send Devil Hunters to Hell?
Santa Claus used the Hell Devil by sacrificing one perfect doll body and three children in exchange for transporting every living person inside a department store to Hell. The sacrifice took place in Chapter 63, “Trip to Hell”, after Tolka incapacitated Denji inside the store with the Curse Devil. The contract required no consent from the victims, and the contract activated the moment the Hell Devil received payment.
The plan of Santa Claus began with a decoy. The elderly German man presented as Santa Claus requested four children as payment for hunting Denji, and the true Santa Claus later revealed that three of the children were destined for the contract with the Hell Devil. The true Santa Claus is a woman who controls a hive mind of perfect dolls through the Doll Devil, and the elderly man was one of her perfect dolls.
Tolka served as the instrument of the trap inside the store. Tolka used the nail of the Curse Devil to incapacitate Denji, and Tolka knocked Beam unconscious during the fight. The true Santa Claus then congratulated Tolka, transformed Tolka into a perfect doll, and completed the family of perfect dolls around her.
The sacrifice followed immediately after the transformation of Tolka. The elderly perfect doll stabbed a blade into his own chest, and Santa Claus offered the heart of the elderly doll together with the three children to the Hell Devil. The offering carried a single demand: every living creature inside the department store must go to Hell.
A single finger of the Hell Devil appeared first to claim the three children, and the manga does not show what happens to the three children afterward. A giant hand with six fingers then descended from the sky and warped every devil hunter inside the building to Hell in an instant. The onlookers outside the store saw the giant hand seemingly crush the building.
The victims arrived in Hell in Chapter 64, “Welcome to Hell”, in a large grassy field under a sky covered with thousands of doors. The doors in the sky of Hell match the door from which the hand of the Hell Devil emerges on Earth. The devil hunters found no escape route in the field, and the Darkness Devil attacked the group in the chapters that followed.
The hand of the Hell Devil served Santa Claus a second time during the same arc. Santa Claus contracted with the Darkness Devil in exchange for the heart of Denji, and the same six-fingered hand carried a piece of the Darkness Devil out of Hell to Santa Claus. Santa Claus consumed the flesh of the Darkness Devil and gained darkness powers for the battle against Makima.
The return to Earth came through a second contract with the Hell Devil in Chapter 66, “Woof!”. Makima arrived to save Denji and the surviving devil hunters from the Darkness Devil, even after suffering a twisted limb. Makima controlled Tolka and forced Tolka to offer all of himself to the Hell Devil, and the Hell Devil transported everyone back to the rooftop theme park where Santa Claus waited with the new power of darkness.
What Happens to the Hell Devil in the Control Devil Arc?
The Hell Devil in the Control Devil arc is summoned by the Anti-Makima Squad, torn to shreds by the Chainsaw Devil, revived by a devil hunter’s blood, and still completes the task of sending the Chainsaw Devil to Hell. The summoning takes place in Chapter 83, “Death, Resurrection, Chainsaw”, during the raid on the apartment of Makima. The sending of the Chainsaw Devil to Hell takes place in Chapter 84, “Hero of Hell”.
Kishibe and the Anti-Makima Squad launched a full-scale attack on the apartment of Makima on the day Makima prepared for the return of the Chainsaw Devil. The squad aimed to prevent Makima from achieving her goal of controlling the Chainsaw Devil. The attack gave the Hell Devil its second contract in the story.
Six members of the Anti-Makima Squad slit their own throats to summon the Hell Devil. The agents requested that the Hell Devil kill Makima and condemn Makima to Hell. The souls of the six agents materialized into the Hell Devil, and the Hell Devil manifested in full centaur form over the bodies of the devil hunters.
The Hell Devil noticed a catatonic Denji pulling his starter cord under the request of Makima to save her. The Hell Devil had no time to react before the Chainsaw Devil regained true form through the body of Denji. The Chainsaw Devil tore the Hell Devil to shreds in a single assault, and the destruction of the Hell Devil seemed total.
A devil hunter revived the Hell Devil with blood before the Hell Devil faded completely. The burning head of the Hell Devil faded away, and the hand of the Hell Devil emerged from above to seize the Chainsaw Devil. The hand sent the Chainsaw Devil to Hell, completing the task purchased by the lives of the six agents.
The Chainsaw Devil escaped Hell by force after the sending. The Chainsaw Devil battled hordes of monstrous devils awaiting the return of the Chainsaw Devil inside Hell. The Chainsaw Devil then broke through the door to Hell itself and returned to Earth, proving that even the power of the Hell Devil cannot hold the Hero of Hell.
What Is the Hell Devil’s Role in Part 2?
The Hell Devil in Part 2 has no confirmed appearance, and no Part 2 chapter shows the Hell Devil acting, speaking, or manifesting. The documented chapter appearances of the Hell Devil end at Chapter 84, “Hero of Hell”. The Hell Devil stands as a Part 1 devil whose story closes with the sending of the Chainsaw Devil to Hell.
Hell itself remains a location in Part 2, and devils continue to originate in Hell and return to Hell after death. The absence of the Hell Devil from Part 2 matches the pattern of other Part 1 devils whose roles ended with the defeat of Makima. The current whereabouts of the Hell Devil remain unknown, and the Hell Devil may still reside in Hell.
Hell Devil’s Relationships With Other Characters
Santa Claus: Santa Claus is the first contractor of the Hell Devil and the user of the most famous contract of the Hell Devil. Santa Claus sacrifices one perfect doll body and three children to the Hell Devil, and the Hell Devil transports every living person inside the department store to Hell. The Hell Devil later carries a piece of the Darkness Devil out of Hell to Santa Claus, completing the second service purchased by Santa Claus.
The Darkness Devil: The Darkness Devil is the fellow resident of Hell whose flesh the Hell Devil delivers to Santa Claus. The Hell Devil never fights the Darkness Devil, and the Hell Devil never speaks to the Darkness Devil on the page. The connection between the two devils exists only through the hand of the Hell Devil carrying the flesh of the Darkness Devil out of Hell.
Tolka: Tolka is the perfect doll through whom Makima purchases the return journey from Hell. Makima controls Tolka and forces Tolka to offer all of himself to the Hell Devil, and the Hell Devil accepts the offering and transports everyone back to Earth. Tolka serves as the payment for the return, just as the elderly doll and the three children served as the payment for the journey into Hell.
Makima: Makima is the target of the second contract of the Hell Devil and the controller of the return contract. The Anti-Makima Squad asks the Hell Devil to kill Makima and condemn Makima to Hell, and the Hell Devil fails to kill Makima because the Chainsaw Devil intervenes. Makima earlier forces Tolka to contract with the Hell Devil, and Makima uses the Hell Devil as a tool for escape from Hell.
Denji and the Chainsaw Devil: Denji is the victim of the first contract and the destroyer of the Hell Devil in the second contract. The Hell Devil transports Denji to Hell inside the department store group, and the Hell Devil later sends the Chainsaw Devil to Hell after revival. The Chainsaw Devil tears the Hell Devil to shreds in Chapter 84, and the Chainsaw Devil escapes Hell by breaking through the door of Hell.
Kishibe and the Anti-Makima Squad: Kishibe leads the raid on the apartment of Makima, and six members of the Anti-Makima Squad give their lives to summon the Hell Devil. The six agents slit their throats, and their souls materialize into the Hell Devil. The sacrifice of the six agents purchases the physical manifestation of the Hell Devil and the sending of the Chainsaw Devil to Hell.
Aki Hayakawa and the devil hunters: Aki Hayakawa, the Angel Devil, and the other devil hunters are the victims transported to Hell in Chapter 63. The group survives the Darkness Devil only through the arrival of Makima, and the group returns to Earth through the contract forced through Tolka. The Hell Devil never meets the group face to face, because the Hell Devil acts only as the giant hand.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Summary of Hell Devil in Chainsaw Man
Hell Devil in Chainsaw Man begins as a devil who embodies the concept of Hell, drawing power from stygiophobia, the fear of Hell and eternal damnation. The Hell Devil first appears in Chapter 63, “Trip to Hell”, as a six-fingered hand that claims three sacrificed children and warps every devil hunter inside a department store to Hell.
Santa Claus purchases the journey into Hell with one perfect doll body and three children, and the same hand later carries a piece of the Darkness Devil out of Hell to Santa Claus. Makima forces Tolka to offer all of himself to the Hell Devil in Chapter 66, and the Hell Devil returns everyone to the rooftop theme park on Earth.
The Hell Devil returns in the Control Devil arc when six members of the Anti-Makima Squad slit their throats to summon the Hell Devil in Chapter 83. The Chainsaw Devil tears the Hell Devil to shreds, a devil hunter revives the Hell Devil with blood, and the hand of the Hell Devil sends the Chainsaw Devil to Hell in Chapter 84.
The Chainsaw Devil escapes Hell by battling the devils inside Hell and breaking through the door to Hell. The Hell Devil holds 4 main powers: Hell Connection, contract formation, transportation between Earth and Hell, and standard devil abilities, including restoration of health through blood.
The Hell Devil ranks 72nd in the Second Popularity Poll with 162 votes and 109th in the Third Popularity Poll with 85 votes. The Hell Devil has no confirmed voice actor, because the Hell Devil has not appeared in the anime adaptation, and the Hell Devil has no confirmed appearance in Part 2.
